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We all have mornings that don’t go perfectly. For me, the culprit is a 10-month-old baby. For you, it may be anxiety about an afternoon presentation. Or a text from a friend. Or construction outside. The point is: the morning can easily get sidetracked, and that can be problematic, as it’s a period of a few minutes that can define the rest of your waking hours.
Fortunately, the “right” morning routine is the one that works with how you wake up, not against it, whether you’re an early morning phone checker or not. No, you don’t have to spring out of bed at 5 a.m. to an hour of Peloton in order to maximize your mornings. …
The human brain loves stories. Think about interviewing job candidates; we’re much more likely to remember the candidate for that head of strategy job who recounted checking her town calendar as a kid in order to open her lemonade stand next to big events (and changing her price based on the weather… and working out the ROI of bendy straws) than a candidate who just notes that she’s had four years of experience.
But much as we love stories, telling good ones about ourselves — about who we are and why we do what we do — takes a bit of work. …
There’s nothing like that state of flow, when you get so absorbed in a project that time seems to stand still. But if it was once a rare state to achieve, it now seems impossible.
As famed psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote in his 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, “The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” …
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